LENGARD Pascal OCISI wrote:
> To manipulate the network stack (route , ifconfig ...) you have to be
> root.
> so if you want to make it possible for ordinary users to activate the ppp
> link, you will have to give him root priviledge while doing so
> ie by writing a special suid launcher that does all the work or maybe
> just making pppd suid root but there may be security issues with this.
Giving the user a root privilege with ppp shouldn't open up the rest of the
box as root to him, should it? If so, there must be a more secure way,
somehow, somewhere. I wonder how sysadmins do it for their networks, without
giving root privileges to average users? Hmmmm...
Brian
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